Word: turnaround
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...proved adept at turning around an entrenched Japanese bureaucracy. Under his direction, Mazda was transformed from a floundering money loser to an automaker with net income of $66 million in its past fiscal year. Analysts hailed Fields as the next Carlos Ghosn--the executive who led Nissan's dramatic turnaround. Fields' bosses at Ford, which owns a controlling stake in Mazda, were so impressed that they handed him a bigger job: turbocharging Ford's troubled Premier Automotive Group (PAG), made up of Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo...
...turnaround was of such epic proportions that it was hard not to be proud. Despite its misstep against Brown, Harvard—ranked in the national top-20 at the time—received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. It was the Crimson’s first trip to the postseason since...
...There was a rapid turnaround when the proposal went to Faculty Council—but that is not to say that the mood had changed,” Pedersen said...
...while it’s hard to tell whether it was senior leadership, the outstanding play of Primm or the emergence of McBride that sparked the turnaround, there was no mistaking the end result...
Mazda lost $1.2 billion in 2000. Last year it earned $65 million. Much of the credit for the turnaround fell to Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Fields, 41, the Harvard M.B.A. who revamped Mazda's lineup with models like his red RX-7 sport coupe. Last month Ford, which controls Mazda, asked Fields to work his magic on its lagging Premier Automotive Group, which makes Volvos, Jaguars, Aston Martins and Land Rovers...